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Heroes of Yan Zhao – Former Yan Murong, Later Zhao Ranmin, Eastern Jin Dynasty Huan Wen, Yizhou Li Shi, Ten Years Of Battle

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In 290 AD, Sima Yan, the Emperor of Jinwu, who was not in the right place, but wanted to pass the throne to the right, honored the ancient precept of "standing up and standing long", and racked his brains to pass the throne to the stupid son who "why not eat meat". Unfortunately, this Emperor Xiaohui was really "stupid", not just a kind of "stupid" who did not eat human fireworks. As a result, the honorable imperial power has since fallen into the hands of Empress Jia Nanfeng, who is famous in history for being ugly/jealous, and has been labeled as a historical label of lasciviousness/viciousness/good wit.

It was also from this point that the Sima kings, who were not willing to be left behind by the inheritance of their ancestors, relied on the huge force that Cao Wei had inherited during the Zen Dynasty and began a "war of the century", known in history as the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings". In the two Jin Dynasties, the army of the whole country could be divided into the central army, called the "Taiwan army"; the local troops in the prefectures and counties were called "county soldiers"; and the counties and townships were called "van soldiers" or "township soldiers". The direct consequence of this battle was the massive loss of the Taiwan army's military strength, which changed the scale of the Jin army's operation from the historical recorded "In June 301 AD, when Sima Ran, the king of Qi, entered Luoyang, there were hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and the Weizhen Jing Division'; in 303, 'more than 200,000 troops such as the Plains Inner Shi Luji and the Zhongwei Army Shi Chao, marching south to Luoyang'; in February 304, 'The King of the East China Sea Yue summoned four troops, and the number of people gathered, compared to Anyang, more than 100,000 people'" When the number of troops in the unit of "100,000" became "five horses crossing the river", several light pole commanders carried "business cards" It is going to take over the tragic situation in Jiangnan. Even the final victor of the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings", Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, was only struggling to support himself in the Central Plains.

This battle of the century weakened the Jin Room, and also provided a perfect opportunity for all the powerful/dreamed local heroes/door valve families, and even the reckless heroes, to swarming together.

Four years after Jianxing, the Western Jin Dynasty perished. In June of the first year of Jianwu (317), Bing Yin and more than 180 officials were successively persuaded to enter Sima Rui; the following year, in the first year of Taixing (318), Sima Rui changed his title to emperor and the Eastern Jin Dynasty was formally established.

"Qin lost its deer, and the world chased after it", the world at that time was already Haojie and Rose. In addition to this Eastern Jin dynasty government, which was partial to the left of the Anjiang River, it also included the Central Plains area, which originated from the grassy Hou Zhao Shile; the former Zhao Liu Yao established by the Tu various Xiongnu nobles; the Area around Bashu Yizhou, where there were displaced people li clans who were self-reliant and self-reliant; and in the Ganliang area, there were also a lot of official hats under the banner of the Jin Dynasty, such as the Liangzhou Thorn History/Xiping Gong/Xizhonglang General/Holding Festival/DuDu Liangzhou/The Zhang Family who led the Qiang Colonel, but basically they were talking to themselves and did not listen to the announcement.

In addition to these four divided regimes, the two Liao areas that must be mentioned are also the Xianbei nobles Murong / Liaoxi Duanshi / Daidi Yuwen. These three families are also similar to the Liangzhou Zhang family, with the official knights certified by the Jin Dynasty on their heads, but they are really self-defending, looking for opportunities and waiting for the rise.

There was chaos outside the door, and the southern half of the Jiangnan wall ruled by the Eastern Jin Dynasty was not clean. First, Wang Dao/Wang Dun controlled the government and pushed the politics of the Gate Valve family to the peak, and killed Sima Rui, the founding emperor of the Jin Dynasty, alive and angry; later, Wang Dun rebelled, and the second entered Jiankang, and the Jin Ming Emperor who was tossed and turned over was exhausted and died only two years after ascending the throne; second, the successor Emperor Cheng was young, the lord was suspicious of the country, and the foreign relative Yu Clan severely punished and punished, forcing the northern warlord Su Jun/Zu Yue to rebel, resulting in military turmoil. Even, the rebel army once rushed into the Imperial Palace Taicheng. After waiting for a long time, the military turmoil of the Su Jun clique was quelled, and the Korean and Chinese regime basically fell into the hands of the Yingchuan Yu clan. His eldest brother Yu Liang came out of zhenwuchang, led the western general, and the military governor of liuzhou, which was already invincible; the younger brother Yu Yi worshiped general Zhenwu, who was above the court, and two old ministers Wang Dao/Xi Jian, three parties circumvented and balanced each other.

It was not until 335 AD that the situation finally changed. First of all, Emperor Cheng of the Eastern Jin Dynasty served his pro-government and changed his name to Yuan Xiankang. In the second year of Xiankang (336), he began to implement the policy of "breaking the earth" of "prohibiting the Hao generals from privatizing the mountains and rivers of Osawa", in an attempt to revitalize the imperial program and regain power from his uncle Yu brothers.

However, he did not seem to have taken into account at all that his grandfather Sima Rui also wanted to use the implementation of the "abolition movement" to achieve the purpose of recovering power from the hands of the shi clan door valves, and finally failed, and was killed alive; now, although Wang Dao, the mastermind who was angry with his grandfather, was helping him with a dead heart, the opposition was equally huge.

The implementation of the "soil break" policy could no longer be carried out after the influence of Wang Dao and the confiscation of the mountains and forests occupied by the Wang clan. Because of the honor of the DPRK, they are now all eyeing the Zhenwu General's Mansion on the island in the middle of the Lake outside the East Gate of Jiankang. If this problem is not solved, at least the outcome of this policy is the same as that of the "abolition of slavery" in that year.

Back in the Central Plains, Shi Le Shi long's Later Zhao had already destroyed Former Zhao and dominated the north from then on. And Shi Shilong, the founding king of Zhao, also rose to the top of the Bliss a year ago; fortunately, the twenty-four counties that he had painstakingly laid down were handed over to his son, but they could not be finally saved. The only one who talked about masturbating was that his nephew, Shi Hu Shi Jilong, who was known as the "calf breaking the car", was ousted from the throne, and finally "fat water" was still half left in his family.

After seizing the throne, Shi Jilong faced all the provocations of disobedience, although he won the victory. But it gave him a feeling that he still needed to do something to prove that he was up to the "job" he was doing. And what is done, of course, is the most suitable for the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Therefore, he began to secretly build ships around the Yongji Canal, train the water army, and prepare to use the soldiers on the left side of the river.

Praying mantises catch cicadas, yellow finches in the back. Shi Jilong tried to prove himself with the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which also had a Yu brother who needed to consolidate his prestige in the temple. As a result, Shi Long was newly mourned, and Ji Long had just finished quelling the civil unrest. In contrast, the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which had been alive for two years, had increased in strength; for the Yu brothers, who urgently needed to establish new merits to consolidate their position, it was a good time for the Northern Expedition to use troops. If it is not that there is a problem behind him- the Li Cheng regime in Yizhou, it needs to be taken care of. Then, the Northern Expedition against Later Zhao would be immediately put on the agenda.

However, the hero does not matter where he comes from. It is not only the tyrants who have established political power who can embrace the world. Murong Xianbei of Liaodong completed the transfer of power in 333 AD, and the internal integration of Murong Hao, the duke of the new Liaodong, after he ascended to the throne, was also completed within the next two years. In order to get closer, the strategists proposed to "ask the Eastern Jin Dynasty for the title of King of Yan" in order to obtain the legal identity of unifying the northern region, and our story unfolded under such an "international big ring view".

(1) Liaodong double wall

In September 337, Ding Hai, at noon, the capital of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Jiankang, fifteen miles outside the West Ming Gate, Stone City

At noon, there are still a large number of boats busy on the river, weaving and weaving. There are down the river, light as fast as flying; naturally there are against the current upwards, such as weight-bearing mountaineering.

At this time, the water and sky communication, very suddenly appeared a three-masted two-story ship. This is a flat-bottomed riverboat, so the head and tail are square waist drums, the rudder tower is built at the tail, and each of the two strings has a wooden ladder to facilitate up and down. About three feet below the slope of the wooden ladder, you can see eight portholes with a spacing of four feet on the boat tree, which is where the paddler's paddle bed is located.

The wide bow of the boat floats and sinks in the oncoming river water, constantly stirring up layers of waves to surge, slapping the beams on both sides, leaving a sloping waterline of high and low front. Judging from the hull left above the waterline, the load of this ship must have exceeded the standard. But even so, the oars on both sides are only half extended.

With the oars with a leaf width of nearly a foot flying up and down, there was an exciting and magnificent drum beat, and the sound was like a shot into the ears of the people; however, the sailors gave more force to push a huge building ship against the current, but they could not do it. On the surface of the water, the roaring river wind from east to west blew the spinnaker sails several feet high, bulging like a bow arm. It is precisely that the oars hit the flowing water, and the boat takes advantage of the wind. This large ship, which is not too common on the river, was able to carry an extraordinary load, and at a speed that was difficult to discern with the naked eye, it worked hard to row the "zigzag" along the river and went straight to the dock.

This is the Caoyun wharf under the jurisdiction of the court, and as we all know, Caoyun not only stores grain for the imperial court to transport soldiers, but also in the tuntian valley. At the same time, it was also an important source of taxation for successive dynasties. Whether it is upstream, Bashu/Jingchu down the river to the south; or, the Central Plains/Saiwai specialties, from the Qinhuai River into the Yangtze River, up the current. All cargo ships must dock here to declare customs, undergo inventory, and pay financial taxes.

The pier is built along the river, the back slope is watery, the terrain is low and concave, and the only way in and out is a long stone step built along the slope. At the end of the stone steps, there is a rest platform that occupies the largest area, and here stands a wooden door arch, which reads "Five Provinces Tongqu" in four big characters, and on the doorposts on both sides is the world-known couplet "Business is booming all over the world, and the source of wealth is lush and prosperous up to the three rivers." ”

However, in addition to being known to the world, there is another truth that the world knows: as long as there is a door with oil and water, then there must be many "housekeepers and mothers-in-law" who come to the card oil/rub oil. At this time, under the archway, there were public cases of on-site office, followed by the "DushuiTai" on the left, which was in charge of water transportation; next to it, it was "Du Zhi Cao", which was in charge of taxation; on the opposite side were several palace people," the "River Embankment Gurudwara", which was established by the Han system and was in charge of the berm repair, which was actually the department that fished for oil and water for the royal family; and the really powerful, without public cases, was a team of soldiers with bright armor and sabers and guns. They set up checkpoints for passage, and all people, all goods must be inspected, and the leader is called the Escort Lieutenant.

Here, it is also the largest cargo distribution center in Jiangnan, where a large number of goods are circulating, waiting to be transported to the next destination. Therefore, on the bank of the river, the crowds are surging and the river is endless; On the terraces on both sides of the stone steps, there are various warehouses, trading houses, liquor stores, although irregular but also staggered, each hanging different flags, signboards, guises, ushered in to send; after the berth corresponding to the yard, a variety of goods that have been packed are piled up, lined up along the river... A bustling, bustling dock life.

"Fourth brother, fourth brother, is this Jiankang?" There were three people standing side by side at the bow of the ship, and a young man who lacked front teeth was excitedly looking up to ask another young man with a golden crown and hair and a long body.

These two princes were both born tall, and although they were dressed in gorgeous right-hand Han costumes, they had their sleeves and waists, swords and knives, and were dressed in martial arts; moreover, both of them were bulging noses and eagles, and it was obvious at a glance that they must be Hu people who lived in Han people's settlements for many years. However, the young man's face was engraved early with the imprint of the wind knife and frost sword, which made the original handsome appearance add a man's fortitude; and the teenager, on the other hand, was slightly childish, and the "baby fat" on the cheeks on both sides had not completely receded, plus the two red halos left on his face by the wind and sand outside the plug; between the opening of the mouth and the closure of the mouth, because of the lack of a front tooth, the mouth shape was deflated, and there was a little more cuteness in addition to the showyness.

A slightly old-fashioned youth, who is usually struggling in the middle of the clan, is not as old as the weak crown. It is necessary to be scrupulous about the left and right wind evaluations, and to face the criticism from top to bottom. So, most of the time I try to restrain myself. Nowadays, it is not easy to lead the team alone, the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and all around are his confidants, although the road ahead is unknown, but in the end he no longer worries about the open guns and dark arrows behind him; in addition, for the first time, he came to this prosperous Jianghuai from the bitter cold outside the Saiwai, the golden powder imperial capital. The landscape on both sides of the strait and the humanities on the docks have all pushed open the door of the teenager's long-imprisoned heart. Along the way, the east must also be seen, and the west must also be seen... For a while, he couldn't keep busy himself, and he didn't seem to have time to deal with his brother's problems.

The teenager didn't care about this. Turning his head and looking to the other side, an elegant old scribe with wide robes and large sleeves stubbornly insisted on his question: "Isn't it, Mr. Pei?" ”

"Little Grandpa, this is the Stone City, and it is still more than ten miles away from the Imperial Palace Taicheng!" The old scribe replied with a smile, "However, it is usually necessary to abandon the boat here and go ashore and take the land route into the Ximing Gate." Little Grandpa can remember that this place can be described as the first-class hub of Jiankang City, which is especially important for marching operations. As a scribe of the military governor Shi, once the first strategist of Yanjing, always paying attention to everything that could be related to the conquest of the army had become a habit, which was deeply burned into his bones.

"Of course, I know this, this place is the confluence of the Yangtze River and the Qinhuai River, with mountains as the city and the river as the pool. From then on, you can take the land road all the way to Taicheng; you can go to which bamboo grid ferry in front of you, and then pass through the Qinhuai River in the middle, as long as the other party occupies the Suzaku Bridge, it will add a bunch of troubles, such as what to find boats, select the location of the river crossing, set up a pontoon bridge, and so on. Moreover, this place was lost, the grain road was cut off, and there was talk of marching and fighting. Heck, in short, the military is not good, it must be right. The teenager didn't care, pretending to be old-fashioned.

The speaker is unintentional, the listener is intentional: although this remark is still a bit naïve and formal in the eyes of the scribes who have served for many years. But when I think of the current age of the teenager in his twelfth life, and the fact that he has never been in battle, it is not easy to say this insightful comment.

"Tiger Father has no dogs!" The scribe secretly admired in his heart. In the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the Sima family won the world with three masters; today it seems that this humble Murong, two generations of masters, and not only three, I am afraid that soon will also come to chase the deer in the Central Plains!

Beside him, the "fourth brother" who was originally intoxicated with the humanities of landscape and water was also successfully attracted by this "high talk". Only to see him, he put his arm around his brother's shoulder: "Old Fifth, the soldiers are impermanent, the water has no long shape, a transmutation, through the conquest career of the soldiers and sages." You jumped to conclusions so easily, maybe something was wrong, right? The depth of love and the depth of responsibility, his heart naturally hoped that the fifth brother could go to a higher level.

The two brothers once grew up together and spent the first five years of their teenage lives together, and they had a strong affection for each other. Although they are half-siblings, they are actually no less than their brothers-in-law. Moreover, this trip is a reunion after a long absence, which makes people feel excited. Just because the two people have different circumstances at home, they form two very different personalities, big caution, small flying jumps, and have completely different opinions or ways of dealing with things. So, this road is to go all the way, to fight all the way.

At present, as soon as the "fourth brother" finished speaking, the cunning fifth brother immediately answered: "There is nothing wrong with it, I am humble and ride across the world with iron." Although, now it is not as good as when yongjia first entered the Central Plains, it can win five battles and five victories and push the world evenly. But as long as I can let the Chinese army lei ride on the shore here, it is naturally far better than staying on the ship. At that time, no matter how many troubles there were, what Jin Room named my father Khan the 'King of Yan', I directly named him the King of Jin. ”

Looking at his younger brother, who was almost as tall as himself, the young man was secretly anxious: "I thought that he was just holding a talent and a proud thing, just good performance, and he could slowly speak gently and exhort; but now this mouth is unobstructed, but it is the most easy disaster to come out of the mouth." At present, everyone is in Jiankang, which is the important place of Gyeonggi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty; such an unguarded sword soldier as Shicai even talks about how to attract troops into Beijing. Let's not talk about the imperial court's special signature for assassination, that is, those officials who open the government large and small, the secret agents of the soldiers in the palace, and it is good to lock you on the spot whenever they hear it; turning around and holding you up again for the crime of rebellion, it is really a troublesome thing. At that time, he will lose ground and delay his relatives and friends, and I am afraid that I will mistakenly pay my father's khan's trust and brother's duty!"

Therefore, the young man thought about it for a moment and then spoke again: "So, I will say something that you can't see, and then we will make a judgment to see if it is appropriate?" Immediately, without waiting for the young man's answer, he extended his finger to the hillside in the distance: "Just behind this hillside, ShuRen, stationed two battalions of three thousand soldiers under general Fubo of the Eastern Jin Dynasty." As long as the surface of the river is slightly different, immediately above the hillside, and there is a passage behind the slope, there will be archers and spearmen/axemen. Instead, after the Bamboo Grid Crossing landed, there was no longer a garrison south of the Suzaku Bridge. In this way, is it better to have a good time here, and attack the heavy troops of the fence here, you say? ”

The young man's words were very polite and decent, without the slightest condescending lesson from his brother; still less did he mean provoking the child. Of course, everything is due to character. Therefore, the teenager's answer is naturally also spontaneous.

As a result, the three people who were still standing side by side, the teenager came out of the crowd. One step, step onto the lookout at the bow of the ship, and hold the sabre under the ribs on the same side with your right hand backhand. The sheath of the knife is not yet quite true, but the surface of the sheath is simple, except that there seems to be a spell on the back of the knife, and there is no decoration; and the shape of the knife is extremely peculiar: there are two handles, which are at right angles to each other.

Among them, the tip of the knife is forward, and at the end is a slender six-sided knife handle, more than a foot long, and the end is an oval solid copper ball. Using soft deerskin, wrap the entire knife handle according to the simplest flat cross-wrapping method for easy grip and prevent slippage. On the side of this knife, above the mantra, at one end of the knife grid, there is another short knife handle with slightly thin ends and a bulge in the middle, perpendicular to the six-edged knife handle. The length of this short knife handle is just a good grip.

Standing on the lookout, the teenager inadvertently rose above the two people behind him. The howling river breeze continued to blow from behind, and the long hair that slipped from the golden crown of the hem and the corset of hair fluttered with the wind. He first looked up and felt the thousands of weather on the river, and then he turned his body back in a spirited manner, facing the "fourth brother" and Mr. Pei, and replied word by word: "Fourth brother, I think this hillside is nothing, and the heavy soldiers in the fence array are nothing, if they dare to block me, I Murong Ba will definitely break the sword." Take me Xianbei Erlang, horse stepping stone mountain, swinging healthy city. Call these three thousand Jin troops, like this bird. ”

It turned out that the teenager was Murong Ba, the younger son of Murong Hao, the Duke of Wuxuan of Liaodong Province, with a son Daoming and a small character. Just because he was young, his father often said to people: "This son can start a family, and he can destroy the family." Notice that in this sentence, starting a family is not a family in the usual sense of "marrying a wife and starting a family"; destroying a family is not as simple as "breaking up a family". Here, it refers to the defense of a country and the establishment of a "destroyed country" for the samurai. For this reason, Murong Hao named it "Ba" (霸).

As for the fourth brother next to him, it must be Murong Ke, who is famous in the future, the word Xuangong. The two brothers were later collectively known as the "Liaodong Double Wall".

In the roaring river wind, Murong Ba's words were clear in Murong Ke's ears. In particular, in the last two sentences, when the word "jun" of "Jin Jun" is mentioned, Murong Ba bent his arm and took out a knife. Other people, most of them are swinging their arms out of the knife, but he is the short knife handle on the side of the hand, so the knife action is completely different from the extraction of ordinary swords; he is out of the knife, it is perpendicular to the sheath, and the whole knife is "taken out". That is to say, the distance of others' knives is the length of the knife body, and his knife distance is the width of the knife body. In this alone, many opponents have already fallen behind.

The body of the knife is "taken out", hidden behind the elbow, and a red light is faintly visible. As Murong Ba extended his arms and wrists, a blood-red sword light spread out from the right, rapidly expanding into a complete fan shape. Then, swinging his arm, the knife grid as the axis quickly transformed into a blood-red light wheel, rotating/crossing between the two brothers. At this time, Murong Ba's mouth also said the word "bird" at the end. As a result, the waist plate, which was still standing as straight as a steel gun, inexplicably twisted and turned outward. A strong wind swept over the heads of Murong Ke and Mr. Pei, and three water birds that flew five or six feet away from the left side seemed to be struck by an invisible sword at the same time. For a moment, in the scream of "twittering", feather blood splashed, and a fluffy bird feather was lifted by the river wind, like a lump of reeds suddenly exploding, scattered and fluttering. Subsequently, the remaining few pieces of the bird carcass that had been cut open fell straight into the river.

Mr. Pei is a literati, does not understand martial arts, naturally shocked, but not too surprised. But Murong Ke was different, he could see clearly, twisting his waist was to send out the sword gang with force; in the blade wheel that Mr. Pei saw, Murong Ke saw murong Ba's three movements with a very small range of flexion/vibrating arms/outstretched arms. Subsequently, the blue-red knife gang flew three times.

Murong Ke and the two of them opened their mouths, and their fingers repeatedly pointed at Murong Ba, who was opposite. Without noticing at all, the fluttering bird feathers had flown above his face. Thanks to the "intimate" Murong Ba, the action was extremely dashing with the blade as a fan, and Linkong swept a capital "eight" character. The whole action is tightly connected, and when the left "skimmer" is turned back to the right, there is no hindrance at all, and the wrist is twisted and turned into the second knife. After two swords were swung, the fluttering bird feathers had been swept clean. That is, buckle the wrist, take the knife grid as the axis of a fan, and turn the knife back. Finally, the knife is firmly stopped above the sheath, the hand shaft is pressed down, and the knife is returned to the sheath.

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